CEO JK Shin reportedly met last week to try and thrash out a
settlement to their long-running intellectual property dispute.
The meeting, while unconfirmed by either party, is being
reported by multiple Korean news outlets and adheres to the
companies' promise to try and come to an amicable
agreement before resuming their legal antagonism next
month.
Sources indicate that the mediation effort was unproductive,
which comes as no surprise given the history of animosity
between Apple and Samsung and the fact that similar talks
were fruitless back in 2012.
Shin was expected to fly out to the US next week, ahead of a
February 19th deadline for conducting these talks, but
Chosun reports he's presently in Korea and has no plans to
leave the country before that date — suggesting that he has
already been to the US and met with the Apple CEO.
Although Tim Cook has repeatedly expressed his distaste for
legal entanglement, this particular disagreement appears to be
intractable enough to keep the companies returning to the
courtroom time after time.
Source MK News (KR), ZD Net Korea, Chosun (KR)
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